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ScreenIn3D, a partner of AMSBIO, has received a share of the £1 million plus prize pot and will receive ongoing support from partners of Scottish Edge - a respected regional business support agency.Scottish EDGE (https://www.scottishedge.com/) runs a competition aimed at identifying and supporting Scotland’s up-and-coming, innovative, high-growth potential entrepreneurial talent. The winning businesses for the latest Round 14 awards came from 37 multisector finalists, shortlisted from more than 280 applicants, who pitched their business idea live at Glasgow’s Technology and Innovation Centre…
Bristol-Myers Squibb will maintain strategic presence in Italy through ongoing development and commercialization of new medicines Catalent will continue to manufacture products for Bristol-Myers Squibb while offering other customers access to state-of-the-art sterile biologics fill/finish and oral solids manufacturing and packaging platforms (NEW YORK and SOMERSET, N.J., June 19, 2019) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Catalent, Inc. (NYSE: CTLT), today announced that Catalent has agreed to purchase Bristol-Myers Squibb’s oral solid, biologics, and sterile product manufacturing…
Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) is tripling the size of its pharmaceutical microbiology laboratory with the opening of a new, state-of-the-art facility in Wokingham. The move follows sustained market demand for the consultancy’s microbiological analysis services. It not only provides the operational space to significantly increase capacity, but also signals a commitment to the future expansion of test methods and staff levels. “We have experienced tremendous growth over recent years and have simply outgrown the existing laboratory at our head office in Reading. This purpose-designed…
San Diego, USA and Cambridge, UK, 12 June, 2019: Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) and PhoreMost Limited today announced the signing of a research collaboration agreement between Ligand’s subsidiary Vernalis and PhoreMost on an undisclosed novel oncology target. PhoreMost has identified and validated the target using its next-generation SITESEEKER® phenotypic screening technology. Ligand will now apply its Vernalis Design Platform (VDP) to design small molecule inhibitors against the target, to help rapidly progress compounds through hit-to-lead and lead optimization stages.…
An Innovation Day focused on the future of mobility has enabled leading global automotive supplier Magna International to make important connections with researchers, start-ups and companies in and around Cambridge. Keen to find out about the latest developments, with a view to adding to its portfolio of products, Magna - which has 348 manufacturing operations and almost 100 product development, engineering and sales centres in 28 countries - partnered for a second time with Cambridge Network to identify likely contacts in the region. Cambridge Network organised an Innovation Day at Cambridge…
The increasing popularity of the human microbiome in biotech has become a source of scientific and investor excitement in recent years. Microbiomes, or the genes of a community of microbial cells (or microbiota) which the body is host to, have unexpected benefits and implications for overall health, from regulating the immune system, to influencing conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cancer and aging. While it is in the gut that humans have the most diverse and densely populated microbiota, their influence and presence in other parts of the body has made the microbiome comparable to “a…
Cambridge, UK, 10 June 2019: Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, announced today that it has closed an additional tranche of investment of $2.9 million (£2.2 million), securing a total of $4.8 million (£3.7 million) in investment. The funding will be used as working capital for the Company’s Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System, expansion of the UK facility and enable the doubling of personnel through the opening of a new US Sales Office and Demo Lab in California. The funding round was led by Greenwood…
Astex welcomes positive, new data showing breast cancer drug, Kisqali® (ribociclib), cuts risk of death by up to a third when given with hormone therapy Cambridge, UK, 7 June 2019 - A new set of statistically significant overall survival (OS) data unveiled at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Abstract# LBA1008), and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, are being heralded as a major breakthrough for pre- and perimenopausal women with hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative (HR+/HER2-) advanced or metastatic…
• Cedazuridine and decitabine, administered orally as a fixed-dose combination (ASTX727), met the primary endpoint of decitabine exposure equivalence of total 5-day dosing between oral ASTX727 and IV decitabine in the phase 3 ASCERTAIN study in MDS and CMML patients • The study confirmed that the safety profile and clinical activity of the cedazuridine and decitabine fixed-dose combination was similar to that observed in the phase 1/2 study and similar to the expected clinical profile of decitabine IV • Astex plans to file a New Drug Application (NDA) with the US FDA by the end of 2019 •…
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